Azerbaijan’s Europa League final complex for teams, fans

Azerbaijan hoped the Europa League final would mark its emergence as an international football power — off the field, anyway. But it has instead found itself in a storm of bad PR.
Arsenal and Chelsea meet Wednesday in a country that few of their fans have been able to reach, and with one of the leading players ruled out for political reasons.
Azerbaijan does not lack ambition in global soccer. It also bid for this season’s Champions League final, but lost out to Madrid. Baku is hosti